A lot of people don't seem to have picked up on the fact that the NPR Labs emergency device picks up both radio broadcasts and satellite transmissions. That means it will work even when the power is out and the cellular towers stop working.
After Hurricane Charlie in Florida my wife and I drove from Orlando to Bradenton via side roads, and there was no cellular service and half the radio stations were off the air. And even if the cell towers work, the systems get overloaded during emergencies because everybody's Aunt Mabel calls to check on Barnaby, Suzanne, and Little Emil, so you're better off with an emergency radio than a cell phone.
Old Sailor's Motto: "Prepare for the worst days and the good days will take care of themselves."
My first wife was a Minnesota farmgirl who said, "Prairie Home Companion? If I wanted to hear people like that I would have stayed on the farm instead of leaving."
I totally agree with you, and I have asked management over and over to make the (I believe minor) code changes that would allow Slashdot to display HTML5 videos.
I dunno.... I bought an acoustic Epiphone at a pawnshop in Killeen, Texas, when I was stationed at Ft. Hood. Not 50 years back, but a good while. I still have it. I'm still not very good on guitar, but what the hell. I still prefer the real thing. It's been to at least four or five countries with me. Yep.
Due to the magic of ad targeting (might be through Google; I have no knowledge of Slashdot's ad deals) I see that the ads on this story are for eye trackers and eye tracker developer kits. Amusing.
I remember trying something along those lines, but couldn't get it to work well enough to review. The new generation of 3-D scanners looks a lot more useful.
Simulators are an area where military requirements are at least as strict as commercial specs. Flight simulators are a good example. Link was the first serious simulator manufacturer, and their first large customer was the Army Air Force.
"Everyone loves to hate on the banks. But they were forced into these stupid loans."
Really? Where I live (Florida), the banks were forced to lend money to prosperous white Republicans who were buying property to flip? And to mobsters and friends of the banks' directors?
Issuing mortgages to food stamp recipients in poor neighborhoods doesn't seem to have been the big problem. And the thing about banks being forced to loan to people who weren't creditworthy was a right-wing lie. You didn't fall for it, right? Me neither!
My (black) son-in-law Chucky started a business installing, dismantling and rehabbing office cubicles a few years back. He's been growing it steadily, almost entirely through referrals and repeats.
He routinely beats white-owned competitors on both quality and price. He gets no government help, and is only now starting to go after government contracts.
Depends on the card issuer. Our credit union (Grow Financial, Tampa FL) issues Visa debit cards under the "Visa Zero Liability" policy, so we are not liable for any theft- or fraud-based charges. They just reiterated this policy in a letter we got today telling us they're replacing my wife's card due to Target charges on it "just in case." My card? I haven't charged anything at Target in many months, so no prob - and my card expires and is due for replacement next month, anyway.
I'm 61, not 16, and I prefer my eBook reader (my Android phone) for light fiction, especially when I'm trying to fall asleep or in a waiting room or eating a light meal in a coffee shop.
The price of Ebooks -- yes, way too high -- doesn't directly affect me, since my local library loans me eBooks. And then there's that huge public domain Gutenberg collection and others like it.
I'll pay for eBooks when they're half the price of mass-market paperbacks. Until then, I'll only read titles I can get for free.
"10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova" is a "Dog Bites Man" story. "600-Million-Year-Old Boy Discovers 10-Year-Old Supernova" would be serious real news. Wow!
Of course he's not getting paid to post a video about a game he likes. If it was a paid post, it would be marked "advertisement." Like you, Jeff just likes the game.
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A lot of people don't seem to have picked up on the fact that the NPR Labs emergency device picks up both radio broadcasts and satellite transmissions. That means it will work even when the power is out and the cellular towers stop working.
After Hurricane Charlie in Florida my wife and I drove from Orlando to Bradenton via side roads, and there was no cellular service and half the radio stations were off the air. And even if the cell towers work, the systems get overloaded during emergencies because everybody's Aunt Mabel calls to check on Barnaby, Suzanne, and Little Emil, so you're better off with an emergency radio than a cell phone.
Old Sailor's Motto: "Prepare for the worst days and the good days will take care of themselves."
My first wife was a Minnesota farmgirl who said, "Prairie Home Companion? If I wanted to hear people like that I would have stayed on the farm instead of leaving."
Thanks for noticing. Corrected.
I'm not Obi Wan. Really.
I totally agree with you, and I have asked management over and over to make the (I believe minor) code changes that would allow Slashdot to display HTML5 videos.
I consider "render it how they like" the equivalent of freedom to choose your own clock face and size rather than the time the clock displays.
Isn't spellcheck fun? I forgot to turn it off.
Thanks for noticing.
I immediately thought of the old Ray Stevens song, GiTarzan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I dunno.... I bought an acoustic Epiphone at a pawnshop in Killeen, Texas, when I was stationed at Ft. Hood. Not 50 years back, but a good while. I still have it. I'm still not very good on guitar, but what the hell. I still prefer the real thing. It's been to at least four or five countries with me. Yep.
I'm sorry. I wrote that for people with 3-digit IQs. I'll try to keep things simpler in the future.
You're describing kuro5hin.org. It was a noble experiment that got ruined by trolls.
Please set sense of humor to "on." We spotted that disconnect, too.
To differentiate the movie Hal from HAL©, the product that didn't impress us much. And yes, they use HAL© repeatedly on their website.
Due to the magic of ad targeting (might be through Google; I have no knowledge of Slashdot's ad deals) I see that the ads on this story are for eye trackers and eye tracker developer kits. Amusing.
I remember trying something along those lines, but couldn't get it to work well enough to review. The new generation of 3-D scanners looks a lot more useful.
Simulators are an area where military requirements are at least as strict as commercial specs. Flight simulators are a good example. Link was the first serious simulator manufacturer, and their first large customer was the Army Air Force.
"Everyone loves to hate on the banks. But they were forced into these stupid loans."
Really? Where I live (Florida), the banks were forced to lend money to prosperous white Republicans who were buying property to flip? And to mobsters and friends of the banks' directors?
Here's a big investigative series our local paper did last year on Florida bank failures: http://htcreative.com/bankProject/banks.aspx
Issuing mortgages to food stamp recipients in poor neighborhoods doesn't seem to have been the big problem. And the thing about banks being forced to loan to people who weren't creditworthy was a right-wing lie. You didn't fall for it, right? Me neither!
My (black) son-in-law Chucky started a business installing, dismantling and rehabbing office cubicles a few years back. He's been growing it steadily, almost entirely through referrals and repeats.
He routinely beats white-owned competitors on both quality and price. He gets no government help, and is only now starting to go after government contracts.
You were saying?
Depends on the card issuer. Our credit union (Grow Financial, Tampa FL) issues Visa debit cards under the "Visa Zero Liability" policy, so we are not liable for any theft- or fraud-based charges. They just reiterated this policy in a letter we got today telling us they're replacing my wife's card due to Target charges on it "just in case." My card? I haven't charged anything at Target in many months, so no prob - and my card expires and is due for replacement next month, anyway.
We *do* provide transcripts for almost all videos. Your point?
I'm 61, not 16, and I prefer my eBook reader (my Android phone) for light fiction, especially when I'm trying to fall asleep or in a waiting room or eating a light meal in a coffee shop.
The price of Ebooks -- yes, way too high -- doesn't directly affect me, since my local library loans me eBooks. And then there's that huge public domain Gutenberg collection and others like it.
I'll pay for eBooks when they're half the price of mass-market paperbacks. Until then, I'll only read titles I can get for free.
I have a lot of numbers blocked on my phones because, for some reason, the same idioholes call me over and over.
My cell phone is nearly in stealth mode. I don't think 50 people have that number. I'm retired and don't need a lot of people bothering me. Really.
"10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova" is a "Dog Bites Man" story. "600-Million-Year-Old Boy Discovers 10-Year-Old Supernova" would be serious real news. Wow!
The transcript will be up Monday. Our transcript person didn't have it ready today. Grrr.....
Of course he's not getting paid to post a video about a game he likes. If it was a paid post, it would be marked "advertisement." Like you, Jeff just likes the game.